THE LITERARY INDEX

LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS OF NOVELS AND POETRY

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William Butler Yeats

Leda and the Swan

An essay by David Reddall of the University of Alberta which examines various aspects of this poem, although it looks in particular at Nietzsche's influence on Yeats, and also features several close readings.

Long-legged Fly

A paper by Tudor Balinisteanu of the University of Glasgow featuring a close reading of this poem in relation to notions of the self as "a space wherein imagination's drives inscribe ideographic realities of desire".

A Prayer for my Daughter

An in-depth prosodic analysis of this poem, by Robert Einarsson of Grant MacEwan College.